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A_Freeman Wrote: Mar 20, 2010 1:31 PM
Hey ollie, tell me when the US congress declared war on the Taliban? It didn't did it? Ok, so we are there illegally. Ah, but you don't really care what is legal or illegal, as long as there are "bad guys" to be gotten.
Tell me ollie why are we now fighting against an army we supplied at one time? Why are we in Iraq, when under the presidency of your boy Reagan the fed sent 5.5 billion dollars to prop up Hussein, because we were unconstitutionally taking sides in a war that had nothing to do with our common defense.
Why do we have a military presence in over 130 countries? How does that protect us here at home? Why do you support young men and women going overseas to fight supposedly for liberty, when here at home the...

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan -- This forward operating base, "20 miles from nowhere," may be the fastest-growing military installation in the world. In the six months since our Fox News team was previously here, the base and its "population" have almost doubled in size. As one of our hosts put it shortly after we arrived, "it's growing faster than opium poppies." But then again, opium is one of the reasons this place is expanding so rapidly.

If the long war here in the shadows of the Hindu Kush is going to be won, it will have to be won here...

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